Colleges: Somber Warning

San Francisco State once ranked among the
top public colleges in the U.S. It is now a sad symbol of the American
campus destroying itself. All sides can share the blame: the
minority-group students who made extravagant "nonnegotiable" demands,
the divided faculty, the administrators who temporized, the hard-line
trustees, the police who broke S.F.'s bloody student strike last winter
at a cost of 120 casualties and more than 730 arrests. The past,
though, is less important than the future: Is the violence finally
under control?